The Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) and Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) have said Russia is behind the explosion that reportedly killed 53 Ukrainian POWs in a prison in Olenivka, in occupied Donetsk Oblast.
SBU intercept
The SBU published an intercept of conversations where Russian occupiers confirm that Russian troops were responsible for the explosion in the occupied Olenivka colony.
Judging from the conversations, the tragedy could have happened because of the explosives that were stored in the colony. None of the eyewitnesses heard any rocket flying toward the colony. “There was no characteristic whistling, and the explosions occurred by themselves,” SBU notes. The intercepted conversations also reveal that the Russian troops placed Grad rocket launchers near the colony and fired from them into Ukrainian-controlled territory. However, no return fire followed.